The Trial of Mohammad Mossadegh

In the end, the outcome was never truly in doubt. After a two-month trial, the military tribunal reached a predictable verdict. Mohammad Mossadegh was found guilty of treason. He was sentenced to three years in solitary confinement, and after completing his sentence, he was to be exiled for the remainder of his life to his ancestral village of Ahmadabad, where he would be kept under house arrest. The court's judgment was a clear message from the Shah’s regime that dissent would not be tolerated.